nimbuses
- plural of nimbus.
Example Sentences
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Even when the music whips up complex, noisy nimbuses of competing motifs, the fast, finely judged changes within the dense activity are preparing you for variations on the weather.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2022
White dogwood branches looked like clouds, the pale saucers of their blossoms arranged in white nimbuses.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2018
A mid-17th-century watercolor with gold and ink shows them with flaming nimbuses over their heads, rather than the round halos of Western art, and yet Mary is dressed in Western style.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2015
I never set eyes on them, but they appear to my imagination equipped with the largest kind of wings, and nimbuses round their heads as big as shade-hats.
From In the High Valley Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series by Coolidge, Susan
Their brandished spears made nimbuses over their heads; and this time their response was like the baying of hounds.
From Sacrifice by Whitman, Stephen French
